Percent and standard error for public elementary school music and visual arts specialists reporting that they taught at more than one school, by teaching status and school characteristics: School year 2009–10

School characteristic

Music specialist

Visual arts specialist

All music specialists

Taught music full time

Taught music part time

All visual arts specialists

Taught visual arts full time

Taught visual arts part time

Percent

Standarderror

Percent

Standarderror

Percent

Standarderror

Percent

Standarderror

Percent

Standarderror

Percent

Standarderror

All public elementary school musicand visual arts specialists

53

(1.6)

54

(1.7)

43

(5.2)

42

(1.6)

43

(1.7)

36

(6.0)

Enrollment size

Less than 300

72

(3.0)

76

(3.2)

56

(9.9)

81

(3.5)

86

(3.5)

68

(8.6)

300 to 499

57

(2.4)

60

(2.6)

34!

(10.1)

45

(2.8)

50

(3.0)

23!

(7.8)

500 or more

39

(2.5)

39

(2.8)

38

(9.5)

18

(1.9)

20

(2.1)

‡

(†)

Community type

City

51

(3.2)

53

(3.3)

38

(10.0)

32

(2.7)

35

(3.0)

‡

(†)

Suburban

54

(2.8)

55

(2.9)

51

(9.8)

40

(3.1)

41

(3.3)

37

(8.7)

Town

52

(3.6)

55

(3.6)

‡

(†)

50

(5.3)

48

(5.3)

59

(14.5)

Rural

52

(2.9)

54

(3.0)

44

(9.4)

53

(3.1)

55

(2.8)

43

(9.4)

Region

Northeast

58

(3.7)

59

(3.5)

52

(13.1)

43

(3.7)

43

(3.6)

43

(11.3)

Southeast

38

(2.7)

40

(2.7)

‡

(†)

30

(2.5)

32

(2.9)

17!

(7.6)

Central

61

(3.6)

63

(3.9)

45

(12.8)

59

(2.8)

59

(3.0)

57

(10.6)

West

49

(3.3)

50

(3.5)

44

(8.2)

26

(3.5)

27

(4.3)

23!

(8.0)

Percent combinedenrollment of Black andother races/ethnicities1

Less than 6 percent

62

(4.8)

64

(4.6)

54

(15.1)

62

(4.2)

64

(4.6)

56

(9.9)

6 to 20 percent

59

(3.6)

62

(3.6)

33!

(13.3)

46

(4.1)

50

(4.3)

25!

(10.8)

21 to 49 percent

49

(3.2)

49

(3.4)

48

(9.3)

43

(3.6)

42

(3.9)

45

(11.6)

50 percent or more

45

(2.6)

45

(2.6)

37!

(12.1)

25

(2.8)

26

(3.0)

‡

(†)

Percent of studentseligible for free orreduced-price lunch

0 to 25 percent

58

(3.5)

61

(3.6)

43

(10.2)

41

(3.1)

43

(3.5)

32

(8.2)

26 to 50 percent

52

(3.0)

54

(3.1)

40

(11.7)

44

(3.9)

47

(4.0)

30!

(10.4)

51 to 75 percent

51

(3.7)

51

(3.8)

50

(10.0)

50

(3.4)

49

(3.6)

52

(10.5)

76 percent or more

46

(4.0)

47

(3.9)

41!

(13.9)

34

(3.7)

35

(3.6)

‡

(†)

† Not applicable.

! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent.

‡ Reporting standards not met.

1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students.

NOTE: Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline.